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DreamShipWrecked posted:Still though, those ships cost 1.8 *billion* dollars to make, you would think they could hire a few more people to helm them so people could sleep U.S. warships are manned at levels way higher than any other Navy in the world. I'd love to see the logs of these incidents and what the gently caress they're teaching these kids as SWOS now-a-days.
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KickerOfMice posted:In response AND SHORT-
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awesmoe posted:https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/899437859815518210 I prefer ships that dont crash!
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Boon posted:These ships are multi-mission, they're only so big and there's only so many places you can stash people. That destroyer already crews over 300 people. Fair points, I don't know much about the navy so thanks for the clarification.
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navy ships are literally just $1b+ floating prisons we put our useless unemployable rejects on. when someone sinks one they're doing us a favor
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quote:There were 10 sailors missing and five injured, the Navy said. yikes
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Wirth1000 posted:10 sailors missing, 5 injured.... This is the second one this year right? Did he name a Secretary of the Navy yet?
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Synthbuttrange posted:There were 10 sailors missing and five injured, the Navy said. Literally the President of the United States posted:That's too bad
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Calibanibal posted:navy ships are literally just $1b+ floating prisons we put our useless unemployable rejects on. when someone sinks one they're doing us a favor Kill yourself.
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Dmitri-9 posted:This is the second one this year right? Did he name a Secretary of the Navy yet? His secretaries of the army and navy keep quitting on him.
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He is getting destroyed in replies by @AHamiltonSpirit.namaste faggots posted:STEVE BANNON READIES HIS REVENGE
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Calibanibal posted:navy ships are literally just $1b+ floating prisons we put our useless unemployable rejects on. when someone sinks one they're doing us a favor Eat poo poo.
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AlternateNu posted:Kill yourself. 
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Sneakster posted:Japan is literally a fascist country, they were nazis for fucks sake, and they're openly very, very, very racist. It is literally an ethnic nationalist socialist state with a fused government and corporate sector. Anime is virtually all trashy ethnically homogeneous hero's journey Horatio Alger poo poo you'd get out of any fascist state. There's quite a bit worth criticizing in Japanese culture but this is just like that Dr. Seuss cartoon that portrayed all Japanese American citizens like they were secret fifth columnists, the biggest difference is Suess was at least good at the medium. I'm down for making fun of trash anime and whatnot but just broadly and 100% seriously saying it's all proto-fascist propaganda is real dismissive of a entire culture and ranks as the most racist thing I've seen on this site in a long fuckin' time. It'd be like me saying hip-hop is all just pro-capitalist propaganda, that's just racist and culturally if it's not a qualified and targeted (or at least funny) criticism. Sorry to drag this out but seriously it just weird and uncomfortable to see someone sum up a race and culture, even a pretty isolated one, in this sort of broad, unqualified disdain and seriousness. Bifner McDoogle fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Aug 21, 2017 |
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Calibanibal posted:navy ships are literally just $1b+ floating prisons we put our useless unemployable rejects on. when someone sinks one they're doing us a favor Pretty sure that's the Marines
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Boon posted:Also, the last time I was in Japan (May) I came across a very, very nice camera just lying on the sidewalk in Tokyo. Being familiar with Japanese culture, I grabbed a coffee and watched that camera and the crowd. No one touched it. A couple of people stood over it, presumably wondering who they could turn it in to, before just giving up and moving on. I gave up watching after about an hour. An acquaintance of mine took a school trip too Japan once, and she described it as a place where you could forget your purse on a bench and come back to get it hours later, but you might get chased down the street by a masturbating person.
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Synthbuttrange posted:yikes which basically means 10 dead, unfortunately
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Literally all your posts in this thread are either white noise or weak trolls. Try harder or 
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Yeah I kind of figured that after the Fitzgerald.
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Sneakster posted:Japan is literally a fascist country, they were nazis for fucks sake, and they're openly very, very, very racist. It is literally an ethnic nationalist socialist state with a fused government and corporate sector. Anime is virtually all trashy ethnically homogeneous hero's journey Horatio Alger poo poo you'd get out of any fascist state.
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tomorrow morning's Trump tweet rant should be glorious edit: imagine how long it takes Trump to wake up and have his stupid loving hair and makeup done
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actually, my posts are always thoughtful and topical
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Pellisworth posted:tomorrow morning's Trump tweet rant should be glorious How long does it take you to put on a hat?
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Endorph posted:concrete revolutio is cool. 
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Calibanibal posted:actually, my posts are always thoughtful and topical This would only be accurate if the eclipse caused a supernatural event where in our reality fused with a bizzaro universe that's somehow more ridiculous and absurd than the one we've been living in.
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Koalas March posted:This would only be accurate if the eclipse caused a supernatural event where in our reality fused with a bizzaro universe that's somehow more ridiculous and absurd than the one we've been living in. So, Heroes?
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tbh anime & video games are the japanese pop culture most likely to dunk on conservative japanese politics and ww2 revisionism short of actual literature railing against the system, because they're produced for such niche demographics that they don't have to worry about angering people and they're made on such shoestring timescales that nobody has the time to go through them to see if maybe this might secretly be anti-government propaganda. the guy who started comiket, which is where anime fancomics and fangames and stuff are sold and is a huge part of anime fan culture, was basically proto-japanese antifa and threw rocks at conservative politicians and got thrown in jail a couple of times. there's always been kind of a link between anti-government sentiment and anime nerd poo poo in japan, though as it's gotten more popular there's been more right wing-y anime, and the prestige stuff to come out of there like ghibli has obviously been pretty apolitical/conservative in a folksy way. still, it's pretty baked into the building blocks of the subculture, which makes it funnier that anime is for some reason an alt. right stereotype in the us. it's not like huge swaths of the anime industry are pointed criticisms of abenomics or anything but there's usually an undercurrent of that kind of thing in a lot of shows and gintama, for instance, is an insanely popular comedy that has dedicated multiple full-length episodes to nothing but jokes about prominent conservative politicians. shadow hearts is a cool video game because the villain's plan is to blow up japan and your chinese party member goes 'okay, and what's the BAD part of this' why is that one guy madder about anime than nazis anyway
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i think we'll know trump's on the ropes if he legalizes weed. "See guys, I did a good thing? Please say nice things!"
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Koalas March posted:This would only be accurate if the eclipse caused a supernatural event where in our reality fused with a bizzaro universe that's somehow more ridiculous and absurd than the one we've been living in. actually I am living in the original timeline where Ben Carson has been elected our first *truly* African American president, he has solved racism and also cancer in the impressive first six months of his term
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maskenfreiheit posted:i think we'll know trump's on the ropes if he legalizes weed. i dont give a hot gay gently caress what congress says. repeal obamacare, dude!
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twistedmentat posted:I'm not surprised all these Nazis are having a hard time realizing that their actions have consquences. Not just them being dumb and only hanging out in echo chambers, but by embracing White Supremacy you reject any and all personal responsibility. Everything is someone elses fault. Can't get a job? drat immigrants! Didn't get into college? Affirmative action! Can't get a girlfriend? Feminists! You owe money? Joooooooooooooooooos! If you're a Nazi and you're fired it's your fault (clap, clap) If you're a Nazi and you're fired it's your fault (clap, clap) You were spotted in the mob And now you've lost your loving job If you're a Nazi and you're fired it's your fault (clap, clap)
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Not that I can think of any way to blame Trump for this poo poo, but I don't recall the Navy constantly htting majormships like this under Obama or Bush Maybe they just did a better job keeping it quiet back then?
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Bifner McDoogle posted:There's quite a bit worth criticizing in Japanese culture but this is just like that Dr. Seuss cartoon that portrayed all Japanese American citizens like they were secret fifth columnists, the biggest difference is Suess was at least good at the medium. I'm down for making fun of trash anime and whatnot but just broadly and 100% seriously saying it's all proto-fascist propaganda is real dismissive of a entire culture and ranks as the most racist thing I've seen on this site in a long fuckin' time. It'd be like me saying hip-hop is all just pro-capitalist propaganda, that's just racist and culturally if it's not a qualified and targeted (or at least funny) criticism. Disclaimer: ADTRW resident so take this with the same amount of salt as a TFR goon popping in to discuss guns but yeah, a lot of Japanese anime echoes the pacifism their society overwhelmingly embraced after WWII. Like, some of the most striking anti-war and anti-nuclear warfare media are anime like Barefoot Gen and the earlier Gundam's are fairly critical of war. *Recent* anime is slowly shifting, with Gate being the most egregious standout example of more assured assertive media when it comes to war, militerism, etc; but even with Gate if it weren't for the white washing of Japanese military history it wouldn't have been any more jingoistic than Stargate SG1. You have a lot of younger people getting into anime, joining the military as a profession, and getting into animation who range across a spectrum of ideologies and viewpoints such as 'guns and explosions are cool' and people who fundamentally misunderstood the point of early Gundam. Heavy Object is a recent interesting example of military thriller anime that reads like what if Tom Clancy ghost wrote a script for an anime series because the way the characters talk and the general plot screams Clancy technothriller and is legitimately interesting to study on its meta on what it says about shifting Japanese attitudes on war and peace; but it and most other media isn't outright saying "Lets rearm and take over China".
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Endorph posted:tbh anime & video games are the japanese pop culture most likely to dunk on conservative japanese politics and ww2 revisionism short of actual literature railing against the system, because they're produced for such niche demographics that they don't have to worry about angering people and they're made on such shoestring timescales that nobody has the time to go through them to see if maybe this might secretly be anti-government propaganda. Gintama is a great show because of how political it is and how much it shits on cons. Also, Gintoki is the best shonen protagonist since he's intentionally a subversion: a middle-aged unambitious out of work layabout with a drinking problem a gambling problem and suffering from PTSD. Seriously, you should be watching and/or reading. While an anime filler fucks it up on this, it's one of the few Japanese anime that I've seen in a mainstream series that has a very stern pro-lgbt storyline.
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